I guess VirtualBox is just not a good choice then. Damn. But thanks for the answer! Cheers, Frank

hi, you have to save the document to memory and use the result to merge the document. When you merge, you have to set the flags to what you want to merge, otherwise it will not merge what you want. On this example i'm merging a document with another selected document. import c4d from c4d import gui # Welcome to the world of Python # Main function def main(): obj = doc.GetActiveObject() if obj is None: return # Isolate the active object isolateDoc = c4d.documents.IsolateObjects(doc, [obj]) # Creates the Memory File Strcuture mfs = c4d.storage.MemoryFileStruct() # Sets the mfs to write mode mfs.SetMemoryWriteMode() # save the document to mfs c4d.documents.SaveDocument(isolateDoc, mfs, c4d.SAVEDOCUMENTFLAGS_DONTADDTORECENTLIST, c4d.FORMAT_C4DEXPORT) # retrieve the data data = mfs.GetData() # Set the MFS to read mode mfs.SetMemoryReadMode(data[0], data[1] ) flags = c4d.SCENEFILTER_OBJECTS | c4d.SCENEFILTER_MATERIALS # Load Document selectedFile = c4d.storage.LoadDialog() if selectedFile is None: return newDoc = c4d.documents.LoadDocument(selectedFile, flags) #Merge the isolated document with the current one. c4d.documents.MergeDocument(newDoc, mfs, flags) c4d.documents.InsertBaseDocument(newDoc) c4d.documents.SetActiveDocument(newDoc) # Execute main() if __name__=='__main__': main() Cheers, Manuel

hi, you could also use LoadDocument lowPoly = c4d.documents.LoadDocument("preset://Optimized_Assets.lib4d/Asset_Library.c4d", c4d.SCENEFILTER_OBJECTS | c4d.SCENEFILTER_MATERIALS) As the documentation says: Similar to LoadFile() but this time the document is not put into the editors list of documents and it gives control over the loaded document. Cheers, Manuel

Thanks. In the meantime I made some more experiments, and it seems the problem is limited to when you click Execute in the Script Manager or the Customize Command window. I created a keyboard shortcut and embedded the script as icon in the GUI. In both cases, the status bar gets correctly updated regardless of what window was active / received the key press, and where the icon resides (same window, other window, undocked toolbar). It seems the Python interpreter is not blocking the message loops in these cases. That makes the question somewhat academic, because shortcut or icon (or menu but I did not check that) would be the common ways to start the script; starting it from the Script Manager is common during development but irrelevant in practice. I'm curious to hear what the developers will say about the message loops though.

hi, this is the current state: "I think this is related to the ASYNC_POPUPEDIT being a non-resizable, modal dialog - and as such it is displayed kind of "Win legacy style" by the OS. Nothing we actively do set (and something which could change once they do further design overhauls in Win10)" Cheers, Manuel

Hi, thanks, that answers all my questions. Cheers, zipit

Always using the threadIndex, of course :-) Thanks, I'll try that!

hi, that really depends on what you are doing. There's different type of lock for different cases and scenario. That also depends on what you care first, speed or memory. but the manual is pretty easy to understand, just pass the lock as a reference to your lambda function and you should be good to go. Cheers, Manuel

Hello to all @zipit said in GetFontDescription() on Windows and Mac: FONT_FLAGS Thank you i miss flags in https://plugincafe.maxon.net/post/58961

Hi @adlarch, thanks for reaching out us. With regard to your issue, I don't understand if it has been solved or not, since the very first post has been deleted and, after, a reply has been left by you in the thread. Can we delete the thread, or can we restore the initial post to give everybody in the community the chance to understand the scope of the second post? Cheers, Riccardo

@r_gigante Thanks. This is what I assumed.

Hi @wuzelwazel, thanks a lot for sharing your progresses on the Ptex Shader and for sharing your code. I've moved the thread to the more appropriate "General Programming & Plugin Discussions" hoping other developers could contribute to the discussion. Cheers, Riccardo

hello, thanks @PluginStudent for the answer here :) if (obj != nullptr) // If I'm checking for nullptr could I just use if(obj) as in Python? The correct way is to check against nullptr, that's a c++11 standard. if (obj) could lead to false positive and bugs. String is not the same thing as maxon::String. String is the classic API while maxon::String is the Maxon API. You can read more about that in the manual about strings Error handling is super eady to use, we got every thing to do so, you should definitely use it. Check Our manual about Error Handling Last but not least you can probably use our Url class to handle file or filename. Give it a look Cheers, Manuel

Hello, as Riccardo has pointed out, AdditionalIncludeDirectories has nothing to do with DLLs. It is used to define search paths for header files. See Additional include directories. It was never valid. Also, looking at the error, the plugin was installed into the C:/Program Files folder. In R21, there is no reason to install plugins there; one can install plugins at any location and just tell Cinema 4D the plugin path. best wishes, Sebastian

Hi Maxime, thanks a lot! Both are valid solutions for me. Very helpful. Cheers

Hi jhpark, thanks for reaching out us. Aside from the notes left by @blastframe - thanks dude for the remarks - I think it's worthy, thinking of a more generic scene, to mention the need BaseDocument::ExecutePasses() to be sure that everything is actually evaluated before querying the scene rather than the EventAdd() which serves a different scope. This function is responsible to execute the scene evaluation and, consequently to be sure that, moving from a frame to another, all the items in the scene reflect the changes imposed by the frame switch. The approach used by @blastframe actually operates on CTracks and key but, although this approach works fine for your specific case, when more evaluation dependencies are created in the scene you could easily end up in unexpected results. The code could then look like frames_count = 10 # [Set] frames counter for f in range(0, frames_count): doc.SetTime(c4d.BaseTime(f, doc.GetFps())) # evaluate the scene doc.ExecutePasses(None, True, True, True, c4d.BUILDFLAGS_NONE) obj = doc.SearchObject('Cube') # get object position x = int(obj.GetMg().off.x) y = int(obj.GetMg().off.y) z = int(obj.GetMg().off.z) # get object color r = int(obj[c4d.ID_BASEOBJECT_COLOR].x * 255) g = int(obj[c4d.ID_BASEOBJECT_COLOR].y * 255) b = int(obj[c4d.ID_BASEOBJECT_COLOR].z * 255) print("Frame = " + str(f) + ", (X,Y,Z) = " + str(x) + "," + str(y) + "," + str(z) + ", RGB = " + str(r) + "," + str(g) + "," + str(b))

Thank you @m_magalhaes! I needed to open the plugins.sln solution instead of the project file. I feel like I've learned something, but I'm not sure what

@rossc1 Thanks for the inputs, I will for sure add a note in the documentation regarding this issue. Just as a follow-up from the current status, it is confirmed and while there is a behavior change in our side due to the new licensing mechanism, the issue also comes from Visual Studio Code, reading directly raw string to detect a valid interpreter, and fail if something is not formated as it wants. However, we received the official confirmation from Visual Studio Code that they will not change their implementation, and not support custom interpreters. But we are still on it. Regarding your needs for an IDE, you can use Pycharm, the only pre-requires is to rename c4dpy to python, unfortunately, we can't officially recommend doing such things since newer OS (Catalina) prevent user changing content of an application package but @dskeith explained everything cleary in How to use c4dpy for Cinema4D R20 SP1. Cheers, Maxime.